Mary Hunter Austin - Land Quotes

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The desert floras shame us with their cheerful adaptations to the seasonal limitations. Their whole duty is to flower and fruit, and they do it hardly, or with tropical luxuriance, as the rain admits.... One hopes the land may breed like qualities in her human offspring, not tritely to 'try,' but to do.

Mary Hunter Austin

Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.

Mary Hunter Austin

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

Mary Hunter Austin

Go as far as you dare in the heart of a lonely land, you cannot go so far that life and death are not before you.

Mary Hunter Austin

None other than this long brown land lays such a hold on the affections. The rainbow hills, the tender bluish mists, the luminous radiance of the spring, have the lotus charm. They trick the sense of time, so that once inhabiting there you always mean to go away without quite realizing that you have not done it.

Mary Hunter Austin